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- tariff - tax on imported goods
- hoover raised tariffs after the crash so that people would buy american products
- drought conditions were not helping with the depression because it made farmers struggle with their crops
Impact of the Great Depression on American Citizens
- unemployment - was one of the main causes of the great depression
- competition for low paying jobs
- discrimination - minorities were getting the low paying jobs but got fired for white employees
- unemployment rate skyrocketed after 1929
- the homeless were on the rise because many people lost there houses
- hoovervilles were shacks made of cardboard, sheet metal, and plywood named after president Herbert hoover
- boxcar children where teenagers that hopped on trains for weeks at a time to try to release the burden on there family
- farmers - were producing very well during WW1 but then price fell and they produced more but it didn't work and they just lost more
- Starvation - Hoover said that people were not starving but really they were very starving
- breadlines formed churches missions and charities to get people food
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